Upon graduating from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, Gary Kissick settled in Hawaii, where he taught English at the University, wrote rock reviews for a surfing magazine, and freelanced as nature photographer. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous reviews. His first book, Outer Islands, was winner of the University of Hawaii's Pacific Poetry Prize. He now lives in Suffolk, where he teaches for the University of Maryland in Europe.